Since the Q & A thread is already on the next subject, I figured I'd reply here.

Anyways... I don't recall the manual describing him as a demon thief. I know he's called that in Twilight Princess, but the manual translation I used​ for A Link to the Past doesn't say that. It says he was a member of a race of evil thieves, but there isn't much else given beyond that.

Well you learn something new everyday, huh? The Japanese word used here is "matouzoku", and apparently, the first syllable, "Ma" can be translated as "evil", "demon", "devil", "bad", "magic" (as in dark magic) and a few other words.

Probably explains why NoA manual inserted that line about them being skilled in the Black Arts.

The plot of FSA doesn't make sense to me. Then again, I was playing with friends and they mashed the A button whenever dialogue appeared, so I missed a bunch of it. Still, there was too much going on. There's the Dark Mirror, Shadow Link, Vaati, Ganon, the Zuna tribe who are there for no reason, etc. Even the first Four Swords game makes more sense.

Can you imagine how much more fluid the timeline would be if FSA had been during the Imprisoning War? For once, I wish that Miyamoto had stepped back. He ruined something potentially useful. I know you don't like the way FSA ended up, so it's really aggravating to hear this.

I read somewhere that it was a mistranslation, and that the actual order he gave was OoT-ALttP-LoZ-AoL.

However, assuming that it [I]wasn't[/I], then I think it could still work. The stealing of the Triforce of Power took place in OoT, so that kills two birds with one stone, because 1) it's consistent with the ALttP, which explains the origin of how Ganondorf became Ganon, and 2) It explains how Ganon got the Triforce of Power in LoZ. In addition, it avoids the problem presented in ALttP where Ganon was killed, and then somehow magically returns in LoZ.

Moving foward, the Triforce was reunited in AoL, which means that it's possible for Ganon to steal it again, leading into the Imprisoning War, and finally ALttP.

To make things interesting, we can also take the HH approach and say that Link was killed after AoL, and Ganon was revived, whereupon he took the Triforce for himself. This leads to the Imprisoning War, and finally ALttP.

LA can keep it's timeline placement after ALttP. This, of course is assuming that we're not taking OoX and ALBW into consideration, since they didn't exist at the time the Miyamoto order was given.

EDIT: I completely forgot that the Great King in the AoL backstory had the complete Triforce. I'll have to think this over again.

Yeah... it was one of the rare occasions where a Zelda game actually focused on tying up loose ends in the timeline, and then Miyamoto destroyed it for no good reason, and then they messed it up even further by introducing a second Ganon.

All that I really know about it is from one book I read a while ago and lots of sessions of reading on Wookiepedia. Just Luke's future alone made me mad. How can it be canon that he turns evil? That was the whole point of Return of the Jedi that he was able to fight that urge! Not to mention half the people from the bloodline end up turning evil too. It's really hard to keep up. I actually like the Clone Wars cartoon, but too many things aside from that rock my mind.

Sometimes I wonder if Beemnorv's theory would have been correct had ALBW stayed a remake of ALTTP. OOT being the Seal War means a lot to me and remains true in my heart. I find it poetic and it's implied several time in OOT.

Here, I resized the image so you can use it as your sigpic if you wish.
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This one could work as an avatar.
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